UNITED NATIONS, United Nations — Health Minister Jane Philpott delivered an impassioned speech at a UN special session on drugs on Wednesday, where she announced Canada will introduce legislation next spring to spark the process of legalizing and regulating marijuana.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The man in charge of the $9.2 billion Muskrat Falls hydro project in Labrador is stepping down amid increasingly intense scrutiny of cost and schedule overruns — but says he wasn't pushed to go.

MONTREAL — The federal government and members of Canada's aluminum industry are expressing frustration over an effort to impose a 50 per cent tariff on aluminum imported into the U.S., most of which comes from north of the border.